![]() ![]() (The DA has charged Lester with assault in the first degree because the potential maximum sentence-life in prison-is higher than that for attempted murder.) The shooting had a “racial component,” the prosecutor said, without offering evidence. The Kansas City district attorney validated the race narrative. Yarl was inevitably identified as a “Black” teenager and Lester as a “white” homeowner. Thankfully, Yarl will likely survive the horrifying attack.Įvery news outlet that covered the shooting led with the race of Yarl and of Lester. (Yarl denies trying to open the door.) Lester shot Yarl, once in the head and once in the arm, through the storm door. He became “scared to death,” he told the police, when he saw the larger Yarl pulling at the exterior storm door handle. Lester, who lived alone and who appears from photographs to be in the early stages of dementia, grabbed his handgun and went to the door. Yarl rang the doorbell, summoning the 84-year-old homeowner, Andrew Lester, from his bed. On April 13, 2023, at around 10 p.m., 16-year-old Ralph Yarl went to the wrong address in a Kansas City residential neighborhood to pick up his younger brothers. ![]() Meantime, the actual configuration of interracial violence is assiduously ignored. ![]() The shooting of a teenager in Kansas City, Missouri, has added “knocking on the door while black” and “existing while black” to the list of activities that allegedly put blacks at daily risk of their lives in white supremacist America. ![]()
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